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The Nut Store Is Closing

SP’s Nuts & Candy, the store at 166 Church that you probably know as We Are Nuts About Nuts, is closing at the end of July. Word has quietly been going around, and now owner Michael Yeo has posted a sign in the window. He told me a couple of months ago that the landlord didn’t seem to want him to renew, and he had no interest in trying to relocate.

According to a 2010 profile in the New York Times, the store opened in 1978, and Yeo bought it in 1996—and it was possibly the last in Manhattan to roast its own nuts. To those of us who love it, this is deeply upsetting. The nuts and dried fruit really are much better than what you find elsewhere. (Thanks to N. for the photo below.)

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I believe they actually started on Duane Street at Elk; the feds built 290 Broadway and demolished the building that housed the nut store. They relocated to Church Street in the early ’90s. Very sad to see them go.